Laptop Gateway MX6453 has Turion X2 Dual 1.6GHz central processor unit inside and notebook Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso has Core 2 Duo T5500 1.66Ghz CPU.
The same 15.4" screen size is on both Gateway MX6453 and Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso.
To runs many programs at once we've found Gateway MX6453 better with its 2GB of RAM than Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso with 1GB. More memory means less swapping.
Both laptops use same RAM memory (DDR2).
There are more free RAM slots available on R40-T500 Cinoso - 1.
Travellers might find Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso more suitable with its weight of 2.1kg comparing to Gateway MX6453 with 2.86kg.
Graphic card inside MX6453 is ATI XPRESS 1150 and other laptop uses ATI Mobility 200M.
Video cards on both notebooks uses 128MB of shared RAM from mainboard.
More storage for multimedia were available at Gateway MX6453 (more space on hard drive).
Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso has faster hard drive (with 5400rpm).
There are no bluetooth on Gateway MX6453 and that might be disadvantage.
Infrared, which is needed for communication with some mobile phones is available only on Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso.
Only Gateway MX6453 have firewire needed for some camcorders.
Both models have PCMCIA built-in needed by some TV cards for laptops.
If you sometimes travel to destination without broadband connection, you don't have to worry since laptops have internal modems.
These laptops have cardreaders inside them.
These notebooks don't have DVI output to allow you to see screen on some bigger modern TFT monitors.
Each laptop has 54Mbit/s wireless
There are no web camera in both laptops which makes them bad for video conferencing and Internet telephony.
Operating system on MX6453 is XP Media Center and on R40-T500 Cinoso is XP Home.
Gateway MX6453 came with Works 8.5, Money 2006 as additional software, and Samsung R40-T500 Cinoso came with Power DVD XP.
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